I just scored a really clean 1.25 MDD G4 tower for a song on eBay.
I basically want to "hot rod" it for cheap, and use it for a secondary machine & "family" computer.
I have two little girls, and they like to pay video games. They are *not* gamers, but they & my wife like to play things like The Sims 2 and a few others. So I thought that upgrading the video card in the tower might help their game experience a bit.
When I went to OWC (macsales.com) , the cheapest video card upgrade for this tower was $200. I do *not* want to spend that much on upgrading the graphics.
I'm basically looking for some ideas of cards that will fit the tower, but can be had for used/cheap on eBay. In other words, what is an older model graphic card that's "better" than the ATI Radeon 9000 that's in there?
Just looking for a few suggestions, because it gets really confusing when looking at various video cards online. Mainly because it needs to be Mac compatible, and I'm a bit confused on weather to get PCI or AGP.
Thanks for the help & suggestions!
I basically want to "hot rod" it for cheap, and use it for a secondary machine & "family" computer.
I have two little girls, and they like to pay video games. They are *not* gamers, but they & my wife like to play things like The Sims 2 and a few others. So I thought that upgrading the video card in the tower might help their game experience a bit.
When I went to OWC (macsales.com) , the cheapest video card upgrade for this tower was $200. I do *not* want to spend that much on upgrading the graphics.
I'm basically looking for some ideas of cards that will fit the tower, but can be had for used/cheap on eBay. In other words, what is an older model graphic card that's "better" than the ATI Radeon 9000 that's in there?
Just looking for a few suggestions, because it gets really confusing when looking at various video cards online. Mainly because it needs to be Mac compatible, and I'm a bit confused on weather to get PCI or AGP.
Thanks for the help & suggestions!